Театралните интерпретации на Теди Москов на „Малкият Цахес, наречен Цинобър“ на Е. Т. А. Хофман
On Teddy Moskov’s Theatre Interpretations of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Little Zaches Called Cinnabar

Author(s): Kamelia Nikolova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, German Literature, Drama
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Teddy Moskov; E.T.A. Hoffmann; theatre adaptation; theatre of improvisation and clowning; Bulgarian theatre after 1989; new political theatre
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the first theatre interpretation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s text in Bulgaria – the production Phantasmagorias (1988) after Little Zaches Called Cinnabar („Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober“), created by Teddy Moskov, one of the leading figures in the emblematic generation of stage directors that appeared around the mid-1980s to become the agent of rejecting the established ideologised conventions in the theatre practices of that period as well as of the Bulgarian theatre’s renewal during the 1990s, following the political change of 1989. Teddy Moskov based the performance on his own adaptation of Hoffmann’s novella and he staged two more shows on it with the same title in the next fifteen years – in 1989 and 2004. The study makes a comparative analysis of the three productions in terms of their political messages and their theatrical language. It focuses on the director’s aesthetics of improvisation and clowning, which has found a vivid manifestation in his stage productions of Hoffmann’s text.

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